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Volume 68, Issue 5 , Pages 427-437 , May 2010

Screening for multiple somatic complaints in a population-based survey: Does excessive symptom reporting capture the concept of somatic symptom disorders? Findings from the MONICA-KORA Cohort Study

Karl Heinz Ladwig
- Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Corresponding author. Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. Tel.: +49 89 3187 3623; fax: +49 89 3187 3667.
Birgitt Marten-Mittag
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Maria Elena Lacruz
- Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
Peter Henningsen
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Francis Creed
- Psychiatry Research Group, School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
for the MONICA KORA Investigators

Received 2 November 2009 ,Revised 5 January 2010 ,Accepted 14 January 2010.

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